Crave, 3 March 2026. Soundtrack: "Just As Well" - Written and Performed by Karrin Allyson; "Glow" - Performed by City Lights; "Liar" - Performed by Katherine Fussey.
In the pub shoot out: both Finbar & one of the IRA terrorists use Beretta model SB, 92F type 9mm pistols. These semi automatic models were not made in 1974.
At 6 minutes in, when Finbar and the Garda are discussing the broken sign, two wind turbines can be seen on a hill in the distance on the right-hand side of the screen. The 1st wind turbine in Northern Ireland wasn't until around 1995. The film is set in 1974.
During the opening couple minutes a Triumph 2500S is seen driving along a street and parking, the Triumph 2500S wasn't produced until 1975 so didn't exist in 1974 when this film is set.
Some cars in the Belfast scenes appear with yellow UK back license plates. While these plates were introduced in 1973, it is unlikely that one would see so many newly registered cars already in 1974, particularly the one used by IRA terrorists.
The closing scene features a rendition of “Canción de las simples cosas” by César Isella and Armando Tejada Gómez, performed by Natalia Oreiro and her husband Ricardo Mollo.
At Newport 1965, stage monitors are visible when Bob and his electric band are performing. But no monitors were actually used at Newport that year, and they did not become common for performing musicians until a few years later.
Pete Seeger brings coffee to Dylan and others the morning of the Newport Folk Festival. The paper coffee cups have plastic lids that were not in use then, not even patented until 1967.
Joan's front cover on Time magazine was about a month after the end of the Cuban Crisis.
When Bobby Neuwirth gets out of a cab to go to the Columbia Records studio, at the end of the block there is a Burlington [Coat Factory] store. Not only is it a modern logo, but Burlington Coat Factory wasn't founded until 1972 and didn't open stores in NYC until much later.
In several scenes, the same 1967 Volkswagen Beetle is visible in the background even though this film takes place between 1961-1965.
Dylan sings The Times They Are a-Changin' at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival which was held July 26-28. But Dylan did not write this song until September and October 1963.
When Pete Seeger leaves the courthouse in New York's Foley Square near the beginning, the sculpture "Triumph of the Spirit" by Lorenzo Pace is visible in the center of the square. It was not installed until the year 2000, 39 years later.
As Dylan is riding into New York in the opening scene, the radio mentions "the NFC Eastern Conference New York Giants". This scene occurs in 1961 and the NFL and AFL didn't merge and form separate conferences until 1970.
Dylan sings into a Shure 55 microphone, the kind with a chrome grille sometimes referred to as the Elvis mic. The microphone connector is the standard 3-pin Amphenol screw-on type, part #MC3M, but a few inches down the cable is a clumsy male-female XLR connection, showing that the Amphenol connector is an adapter to modern XLR. In the early '60s, the Amphenol connector would have been soldered to a long cable stretching back to an equipment rack or a wall plate. No XLR would have been used.
When Bob goes to The Chelsea Hotel to find Joan, they show him crossing the street, and a maroon bus lane can be seen on the road, but bus lanes weren't painted maroon until 2007.
In the motel, supposed to be in Newport, RI but actually shot in Cape May, NJ there is a New Jersey Transit bus in the background sporting a "TNJ" logo. A New Jersey bus could have been chartered to RI, but New Jersey Transit was not formed until 1979.
When Dylan is on the way to see Joan Baez in her Northern California home in the woods, power poles are flashing by in the background, but they have four levels of wire running along them: power, fiber, cable, and telephone. In 1963, it would have been just power and telephone.
When Pete Seeger appears on the courthouse steps near the beginning, a photographer can be seen using a Nikon F Photomic. That model wasn't introduced until 1962, whereas the court appearance was in 1961.
The famous "Judas/I don't believe you/play it loud " exchange occurred not at the Newport Folk Festival but on May 17, 1966 in Manchester UK.
Dylan is seen watching the announcement of JFK's assassination on TV in NYC right before he performs at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, but the festival was held in July 1963, and JFK was killed in late Nov 1963.
Dylan arrived in NYC in January 1961, yet the car radio has a NY Giants' football game beginning and says the Giants are 8-3 at that point in the season and Y.A. Tittle is starting at QB as usual. There were no NFL games in January 1961; the championship game was played December 26, 1960, and the Giants' season record that year was 6-4-2; their last game was December 18, 1960, and Tittle wasn't traded to the Giants until August 1961 and didn't start his first game until September 24, 1961.
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